BRITISH CORRUPTION WORSENS SIGNIFICANTLY IN 2008: TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-CORRUPTION organisation Transparency International has warned that the perceived level of corruption in Britain significantly worsened in the past year. In its latest international rankings, it said that the UK was now the 16th least corrupt nation, with a rating of 7.7 (10 being cleanest and zero highly corrupt). Last year, Britain was 12th with an 8.4 rating. Worldwide, Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden shared the highest score of 9.3. Grubbiest were Somalia at 1, slightly trailing Iraq and Myanmar at 1.3 and Haiti at 1.4. Within the EU, ...
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